
In the 2018 governor’s elections, Furgal won a confident victory as a candidate from the LDPR. Then, in the second round of elections, he scored more than 70% of the vote, by a large margin bypassing his opponent United Russia Vyacheslav Shport (at that time the current head of the region), who scored only 27%.
After the news of the detention of Sergei Furgal, the leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky said that Furgal was the best leader of the region: “The economy is developing. All indicators are better than with the former governor of the skin. Probably this infuriates. How is it, the governor from the LDPR - the indicators are better? Wildness ".
As the chairman of the LDPR threatened, the faction can resign authority in protest against what is happening with the van.
However, the State Duma chairman Vyacheslav Volodin in response called not to blackmail the parliament and not to translate the dialogue "into the theme of revolution, threats." According to Volodin, the law enforcement agencies did everything right, and "the charges against the charges are very serious." According to TASS sources in law enforcement agencies, we are talking about the murders of entrepreneurs Yevgeny Zori in 2004 and Oleg Bulatov in 2005, also in the case appears as an attempt on the Amur entrepreneur Alexander Smolsky.

Later, on the afternoon of July 9, it became known that two deputies of the legislative Duma of the Khabarovsk Territory Dmitry Kozlov and Sergey Kuznetsov (both are also in the LDPR) were detained.
TASS, citing sources, said that the deputies were detained on suspicion of fraud and a criminal case against them “has not yet been connected” with the Furgal case.
Dmitry Oreshkin
political scientist:
- It is difficult for me to evaluate this picture separately from an honest counting of votes in the Khabarovsk Territory [during voting on amendments to the Constitution]. There are two features. Firstly, the distribution of Spilkin [independent analyst Sergei Spilkin conducted his study on the appearance and scope of falsifications at all-Russian voting on amendments to the Constitution. - Ed. ] Close to normal in the Khabarovsk Territory.
Secondly, an officially fixed turnout in the region is 44%, for amendments-62%. In a striking way, this coincides with the data that Spilkin represents. He says that the turnout is up to 45%. And the second, he says that the real result is “for”-somewhere around 62–65%-again coincides. It is characteristic that the Primorsky Territory is located nearby, where there are signs of counterfeiting, and the result there is 79% “for”, and the turnout is about 70%.
So, it means that the van has a 24% below the all -Russian standard and 15% lower than the support level.
At the same time, all voices are honestly calculated, which creates a bad precedent from the point of view of power.
I think this was the last straw. And so, of course, each governor has its own file, daddy with compromising evidence; The question is why, when and on whose team this dad is taken out. I think the team was from the center. It is unlikely that she could be from somewhere else.
It is characteristic that they do not touch the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, because it would be too obvious [the only region where the population voted against amendments to the Constitution, became NAO. - Ed. ]. And it would be clear that they are not accounting for not obeying.
And Khabarovsk - who remembers what results were there? Only specialists. So, it seems to me, on the one hand, all the bosses who speak their inner language perfectly read the signal and perfectly understand that it is impossible to selfless, you need to do what is ordered from the Kremlin.
And on the other hand, our population thinks: who did he kill, how much he killed? For 15 years they suffered from that moment and for two years endured the vangal himself [as the governor’s post], and suddenly their patience ended - why would it be?